 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pagina’s
...kind of dijcordi* cancers -, л combination of diHimilar images, or difcovery of occult refemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The moll heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ranfacked for il.juftrations,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pagina’s
...wit, according to Johnson's definition of that term, which agrees with its received acceptation: ' A combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.' At the same time, although it may appear from Burke's works., that he abounded in wit much more VOL.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagina’s
...the hearer, may be more rigorously' and philosophically considered as a kind of dtsearetia cancan \ a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently ijniikc. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than eriough. The most het«ro»ciyxras ideas are yoked... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagina’s
...upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of £scordla cancan ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ;... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pagina’s
...moreover, makes the definition too wide, and quickness of comparison too narrow. ' Wit,' says Johnson, ' is a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.' To which our author objects, that if it be true, the discovery of the resemblance between diamond and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pagina’s
...upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of dlscordia concurs; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defmed, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pagina’s
...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ;... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pagina’s
...dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous...ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art arc ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their 'learning instructs, and their subtility... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pagina’s
...the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concurs ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagina’s
...upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors, a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of...resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ;... | |
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But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. 
